Sanctuary judges are “on notice” after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court formally reprimanded Judge Shelley Joseph for seemingly helping an illegal alien evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) General Counsel James Percival told Breitbart News.
\n\nIn April 2018, illegal alien Oscar Manuel Peguero, whose alias is Jose Medina-Perez, was in court in Massachusetts after he had been arrested for drug possession. At the time, Peguero had an outstanding warrant for being a fugitive from justice in Pennsylvania.
\n\nICE agents had lodged a detainer against Peguero the day he was arrested for drug possession. The detainer, though, was not honored. In court, where Judge Joseph presided over the case, ICE agents were outside the courtroom ready to arrest Peguero.
\n\nJoseph, prosecutors say, let Peguero go out of the courtroom through a back exit door to evade the ICE agents waiting to arrest him. The next year, Joseph was charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, aiding and abetting obstruction of justice, and aiding and abetting obstruction of a federal proceeding.
\n\nBy 2022, the Biden administration dropped the charges against Joseph. On September 10, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave Joseph a formal reprimand, stating that she “created…
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